Beelink SER8 vs MSI Cubi NUC AI+

Side-by-side specification comparison with AI model-fit analysis. Data sourced from manufacturer specs, verified 2026-07-21.

	Beelink SER8 (Ryzen 7 8845HS) Beelink	MSI Cubi NUC AI+ (Core Ultra 7 258V) MSI
Price	$649MSRP	$899MSRP
AI Framework	ROCm, Vulkan	OpenVINO, DirectML, IPEX
CPU Cores	8	8
Ethernet	2.5GbE	2.5GbE
GPU Compute Units	12	8
GPU	Radeon 780M	Intel Arc
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	89.6	136.5
Memory Bus Width	128-bit	128-bit
Memory (GB)	32	32
Memory Type	DDR5 5600 SODIMM	LPDDR5X 8533
Memory Upgradeable	Yes (DDR5 SODIMM)	No (soldered LPDDR5X)
NPU TOPS	16	47
OCuLink / PCIe	No	No
OS Support	Windows 11, Linux	Windows 11, Linux
Platform	AMD Hawk Point	Intel Lunar Lake
Storage Type	NVMe Gen4 SSD	NVMe Gen4 SSD
TDP (W)	65	30
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Model Fit Analysis

Beelink SER8 (Ryzen 7 8845HS)

Max Q4: 34B class models (38B params)

Usable AI memory: 22.5GB · Method: amd_igpu_bios_limited Conservative

Llama 3.1 8B ✓

Llama 3.1 70B ✗

Llama 3.2 1B ✓

Llama 3.2 3B ✓

Qwen 2.5 7B ✓

Qwen 2.5 14B ✓

Qwen 2.5 32B ✓

Qwen 2.5 72B ✗

Mistral 7B ✓

Mixtral 8x7B ✗

DeepSeek R1 7B ✓

DeepSeek R1 32B ✓

DeepSeek R1 70B ✗

Phi-3 Medium 14B ✓

Gemma 2 9B ✓

Gemma 2 27B ✓

Stable Diffusion XL ✓

Flux.1 Dev ✓

Flux.1 Schnell ✓

MSI Cubi NUC AI+ (Core Ultra 7 258V)

Max Q4: 14B class models (21B params)

Usable AI memory: 14GB · Method: intel_igpu_bios_limited Conservative